The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 101
At these words Amina fetched a lute from a case of yellow satin and gave it to Sadie, who sang several songs to its accompaniment.
Who acts: Amina, Sadie, song · What happens: fetch, give, sing, accompany · To what, where: lute, words, Sadie, several songs, accompaniment
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amina, Sadie, song), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fetched | obl |
| 4 | Amina | Amina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fetched | nsubj |
| 5 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lute | det |
| 7 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fetched | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 case | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 case | det |
| 10 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fetched | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 satin | case |
| 12 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 satin | amod |
| 13 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 case | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fetched | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Sadie | case |
| 18 | Sadie | Sadie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sang | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 sang | nsubj |
| 21 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Sadie | acl:relcl |
| 22 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 songs | amod |
| 23 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sang | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 accompaniment | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 accompaniment | nmod:poss |
| 26 | accompaniment | accompaniment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sang | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past | Amina | a lute | this words | from a case of yellow satin | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent lute=Theme at word=Asset from case=Source | ||
| 2 | give | past | Amina not said here | lute | Sadie | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to sadie=Recipient | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | Sadie | several songs | song's accompaniment | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to accompaniment=Recipient | |||
| 4 | accompany | song | nom accompaniment «event transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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